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Dr. Chenming Hu, Ph.D., also known as Calvin serves as Chief Executive Officer and President at Anchor Semiconductor Inc. Dr. Hu serves as an Executive Advisor of NSCore, Inc. He served as the Chief Technology Officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) from August 2001 to 2004. His research areas are microelectronic devices and technologies. He also leads the development of the BSIM transistor model for CMOS circuit simulation. He is the Founder of ... Quintic Corporation. Dr. Hu co-developed FinFET, a new MOSFET structure that has allowed the IC industry to reset the record for smallest transistor with the capability to scale to 10nm gate length. He co-founded and served as a Co-Chairman of Board at Celestry Design Technologies, Inc. since 1995. He has been an Independent Director at SanDisk Corp. since August 4, 2009. He has been a Director of Ambarella Corporation and Inphi Corporation since August 2010. He serves as a Director of Quintic Corporation. He serves as a Member of Board of Advisors at Himax Display (USA) Inc. and Himax Display (USA) Inc. He serves as a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. Dr. Hu serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Vimicro International Corp. He serves as a Member of Technical Advisory Board at ACCO Semiconductor, Inc. He served as an Independent Director at Fortinet Inc. from June 2012 to June 19, 2015. He served as a Member of Technical Advisory Board at SiTime Corporation. He served as a Member of Board of Advisors at Clear Shape Technologies, Inc. and Walden International. He served as a Director of Monolithic System Technology Inc. from January 31, 2005 to June 30, 2010 and FormFactor Inc. from December 2009 to December 26, 2010. He is an honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, and of Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He was Chancellor's Professor Chair at the College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Hu was an Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was Chairman of the Board of the East San Francisco Bay Chinese School. He is a Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a fellow of the Institute of Physics. He was the board Chairman of the East San Francisco Bay Chinese School and is a frequent advisor to industry and educational institutions. IEEE awarded him the 2002 Solid State Circuits Award for developing BSIM and the 1997 Jack A. Morton Award for his contributions to transistor reliability. In 1997, he received UC Berkeley's highest honor for teaching - the Distinguished Teaching Award. In 2000, he received the DARPA Most Significant Technological Accomplishment Award for developing FinFET. He is the Author or co-author of five books, 800 research papers, and supervised 60 doctoral students. Dr. Hu He received the B.S. Degree from National Taiwan University, and also M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970 and 1973 respectively, all in Electrical Engineering.

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